Last week, we finished working on our salt dough sculptures. They took us a whole week to create. We started off investigating and exploring the idea before planning and making the salt dough. The salt dough was quite tricky to work with - much harder than the playdough we used to model our ideas! Once the dough was shaped, it baked in a slow oven for 3-5 hours (Depending on how big and thick it was). On Friday, they were painted, starting with a base layer of white. Most people gave their sculpture 2 layers of paint. Miss Sullivan spray-varnished them afterschool and they were left to harden over the weekend. They look great in our classroom and they are getting lots of comments! Check out some photos of the finished sculptures: